UAW southern organizing gathers momentum; AL autoworkers petition for union recognition

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Workers at an auto parts plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama recently petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union representation election.

The petition is the latest development in the UAW’s ongoing campaign to organize autoworkers in the South.

The workers work at a Tuscaloosa plant owned by Faurecia, a global auto parts supplier based in France. They make automotive interior components.

If the workers vote to join the UAW, they will become the sixth group of auto parts workers along a 60 mile corridor between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham to become UAW members.

Most of the unionized auto parts plants along this corridor supply parts to Mercendes, which operates a manufacturing plant in nearby Vance where the UAW has an active organizing campaign.
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In addition to the organizing campaigns in Alabama, the UAW has active organizing campaigns at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi.
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